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Routing Information guard (was Class "B" forsale )


From: Ichiro Mizukoshi <ichiro () TokyoNet AD JP>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:14:31 +0900


Chis's Idea is nice. Routing engineers in ISP sometimes misconfigure their
gear, so bogus route will be announced. Checking the Routing Information
ande sending the warning messages to the ISP, makes the network more stable.

And, let me toss an additional idea to it.  
*) If an allocated addresses does not appear in such table for some period,
asking the aloocated guy to return them.

Ichiro Mizukoshi
e-mail(office):ichiro () TokyoNet ad jp
Tel:+81-3-3341-6301     Fax:+81-3-3341-6305

From: "Chris A. Icide" <chris () nap net>
Subject: Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) 
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 04:10:54 -0600

Now I don't even imagine to propose any comprehensive solution for
this.  However let me toss an idea on the table.  If in fact ARIN does come
into being as an organization supported and funded by an for the commuity
of IP users, then those IP users could work in cooperation with ARIN (and the
other NIC's) to police the usage of IP's.  For example, the NICs could
maintain a database online that could monitor the current BGP tables.
If the NIC determines that an unallocated IP block is in use, they could then
insert a prefix entry into the table, seriously degrading the value of that
IP block.  This could also be used in a gross way to evaluate usage of
prefixes, and unauthorized changes to prefixes.

Again, this is only an idea that I toss on the table, but I do stand by the 
fact that unless there is a negetive incentive, there are those who will
do anything that is beneficial to them.

Chris A. Icide
Sr. Engineer
Nap.Net, L.L.C. 


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